After reuniting with Gautam Gambhir, who returned to the staff as their mentor, Sunil Narine dished out an allround present, reigniting their title hopes once more and a win towards Rajasthan Royals will hand them the pole place within the 10-team standings forward of the midway stage of the season.
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On April 16 evening, at one in every of cricket’s most iconic grounds, two groups in high kind come face to face. It ought to be an interesting battle within the IPL between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals on the Eden Gardens.
Royals are sitting atop the desk with 5 wins from six video games whereas Knight Riders, which has 4 wins from 5, should be keenly eyeing that spot.
After crushing Lucknow Super Giants by eight wickets with loads to spare on the identical venue, the host is certainly wanting formidable. RR landed on this historic metropolis after successful its final match, although it was a a lot nearer encounter towards Punjab Kings.
Sanju Samsmon’s males had gained that match with out two of their most skilled stars, Jos Buttler and R. Ashwin. The staff’s star of the season, Riyan Parag, had a comparatively quiet recreation too, however Shimron Hetmyer steered the aspect house with a 10-ball 27 not out. Such has been Royals’ batting depth.
While Parag and Samson are among the many main run-scorers, Yuzvendra Chahal has worn the purple cap for a lot of the season.
The wrist-spinner although has to bowl towards an explosive batting line-up which has the likes of Phil Salt, contemporary from his 47-ball unbeaten 89 towards LSG, Andre Russell, skipper Shreyas Iyer and Sunil Narine.
Narine has additionally been efficient with the ball. Mitchell Starc should be raring to go too, after his three-wicket haul — two of them got here within the remaining over — on Sunday.
Teams (from):
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (c), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj.
Match begins: 7:30pm.
